Gotta love when a billionaire complains about something that prevents him from being slightly richer.

I don’t know why you would let your brand new game be given away for a week for “modest compensation”, but best of luck with that.

Agreed, it’s a great idea. I don’t even think I would have been good at soulslike games when I was 14. I just don’t have the patience for those sorts of constant boss battles where it takes so many hits to kill the boss but you die in 1 or 2.

You’re right to ask for a source, it should not be an offensive thing to ask for.

Luckily others have answered with citations. I was surprised and dismayed to learn that solid state memory isn’t so solid in the long run.

Flash memory won’t last forever especially if it isn’t plugged in once in a while.

I started playing it again after going back to Elite Dangerous. I’m on an expedition in Elite Dangerous so there is no one around. I’m back in Starfield to try and remember where I left off.

His Battlecruiser 3000 game was the Star Citizen of it’s time, except it didn’t bring in hundreds of millions of dollars.

And he has this little group of fawning supporters who will vigorously defend him in every discussion.

Exactly. And empathy is not a weakness, it’s a strength. Blindly hating things is weakness and ignorance.

EA is always one step forward one step back.

How does it not? It is the same game map, same missions, even the same character names. You just know the corporate bros would hate an alternative to their paid remaster that is basically the same thing.

Yeah, it’s all cool until Bethesda or their owners issue a takedown.

That’s because the violent extremists are in the trump administration and don’t like to be countered. They all need to be countered right to prison. After trials that is.

These tariffs shouldn’t be 145% of the retail price, they should be 145% of the wholesale price.

It’s a large leap forward in UI, graphics, and performance.

Hey, this doesn’t seem like free speech. Something is wrong.

Everyone has a FB account whether they created it or not, and I’m sure Meta found a way to link their VR headsets to your account even if it’s not obvious.

It looks like it’s a cool game, too bad it’s $70 and has the pointless launcher.

The most expensive game I’ve bought recently is Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, which came out 4 years ago.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is one of the best. Not sure about the DRM situation.

Bitcoin was worth about $16000 at the end of 2022, so it’s still way up compared to then.

I would have said Doom, but I think in the long run it’s Minecraft or Skyrim.

Katamari Damacy

Mercenaries

DOA 2

That’s good because a large number of demos in the Next Fest had goofy AI logos.

And this should only apply to things Acer sells directly. If Amazon or Target import Acer products they are the ones that pay the tariff, not Acer.

There is fun to be had there. IIRC the gameplay and UI had some annoying parts. Like I don’t think there was any way to keep a favorite weapon after a mission.

That doesn’t sound good.

It didn’t bother me I was just sightseeing old FC5 locations and shooting bad guys.

I liked New Dawn more than I thought I would, played coop.

I get into one of the Epic giveaway games sometimes but the launcher always feels like an obstacle rather than an asset. It’s not software I enjoy using.

I read that games with ads were already banned from Steam a long time ago. That explains why we don’t have more junk in the Steam store. Judging by how many never completed early access asset flip games there are, it would be a complete cesspool with ad-supported games. Good decision by Valve.

As others have said, play Civ 5. Better game with all the bugs worked out, and cheaper.

I put it off for a long time but I enjoyed it co-op. It was relatively short, the antagonists weren’t that compelling or even very present in the story, but I felt like it was greater than the sum of it’s parts and I enjoyed re-visiting Far Cry 5 locations with post-apocalypse appearances. Like “Hey, here is the island where you started FC5” and “Hey, here is the gas station at the rural intersection where you had to steal the truck.”

YMMV but as a long time mod installer I find the UI of Vortex more confusing than manually modding most games. But if the UI clicks with you then yeah it would be a lot easier than manual.

Yes, you got me there. Forgot about New Dawn even though I finally played it for the first time a couple months ago.

Forza Horizon lol

Also Far Cry. No story connection between the games although there is one minor recurring character.

Maybe Spiderman one will get cheaper

I guess they don’t want it to be profitable then. Maybe over the next 10 years it will break even on Epic.

I don’t think it’s coop. I would have played it coop if it was.

Because I like to see the art that the game artists made, not AI interpretation of what should be in-between the frames. I’m not hung up on framerate, as long as it’s stable and above 30 I’m good.